Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Groups create displays of manmade and natural use of shapes.
Objective: To extend what has been learned about geometric shapes.
Activity: Working in cooperative groups, each group will be assigned a specific geometric shape. The group task is to create a display of man-made and natural items which are composed of this shape. Large items may be represented by miniature models or pictures.
Assessment: Student on-task behavior and contributions to group efforts.